{mosimage} Fans were giddy when they found out that a certain elderly Autobot was going to make it into the Animated cartoon. But just what is his role in this new continuity? Lead Animated Character Designer, Derrick Wyatt, had this to say:

Alpha Trion is head of all of the civilian guilds that make up the non military portion of the Autobot High Council. I guess this sort of makes him like a "vice-Magnus."